Williams v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 1973
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No criminal sentence was imposed upon them. The Court here was acting not as a criminal court strictly speaking, but as a Juvenile Court, possessing large discretion as to what should be done with the delinquents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wheeler v. Shoemake
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.